Latest Reid maki Podcast Episodes
23: The Pain Project: Alternatives to Opioids
We Can Do This! - April 10, 2024 14:56 - 30 minutesThis episode of NCL’s “We Can Do This!” health podcast is focused on alternatives to opioids for pain control. America is in the middle of an opioid crisis, and that crisis extends to young adults who are dealing with pain from wisdom teeth removal, sports-related injuries and more. Ex...
22: A Historical Look at the American Garment Industry and Its Impact on Labor Movements in the U.S.
We Can Do This! - December 19, 2023 20:04 - 31 minutesIn our latest installment of We Can Do This! Sally Greenberg, CEO of National Consumers League, sits down with Rebecca Ballard to discuss the fashion and garment industry. Sally and Rebecca, an experienced and leading authority on sustainable fashion and founder of the consulting firm B...
21: NCL Health Podcast Series: Amy Hinojosa, National CEO of MANA
We Can Do This! - October 18, 2023 13:42 - 25 minutesNCL is excited to present the inaugural podcast episode of our new Health Podcast Series under the “We Can Do This!” podcast umbrella, hosted by our Senior Director of Health Policy Robin Strongin. This month we are celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month with our esteemed guest Am...
20: Stop Senior Scams!
We Can Do This! - March 06, 2023 14:00 - 46 minutesHappy Consumer Protection Week! While fraud can affect anyone, regardless of age and other demographic information, Fraud.org and NCL are putting the spotlight on scams targeting older Americans. Our host for this episode is NCL’s very own fraud expert, Vice President of Public Policy, ...
19: Menthol Cigarettes Are Going Up in Smoke
We Can Do This! - June 28, 2022 09:00 - 51 minutesOn this episode of “We Can Do This!” our host Sally Greenberg sits down with members of the African American Tobacco Control Leadership Council, the country’s leading public health education and advocacy organization taking on Big Tobacco to save Black lives. Dr. Phil Gardiner, Carol Mc...
18: How Did My Medicine Get Here? Behind the Scenes of the Healthcare Supply Chain
We Can Do This! - June 21, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutesMany of us take for granted that our medicines are available at the pharmacy whenever needed. Despite the disruptions of the pandemic, U.S. healthcare supply chains remained incredibly resilient, safe and reliable. Dr. Nicolette Louissaint of the Healthcare Distribution Alliance (HDA) j...
17: Maintaining Customer Trust in a Booming eCommerce Marketplace
We Can Do This! - March 11, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutesHappy Consumer Protection Week! Are you an online shopper? This podcast is for you! On this episode of We Can Do This!, NCL’s Vice President of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud, John Breyault, sits down with Alyssa Betz, Director of Public Policy leading Amazon’s Brand Protec...
16: A Woman’s Right to Choose: Equal Access to Health Care Threatened
We Can Do This! - February 08, 2022 10:00 - 51 minutesThis episode contains sensitive topics, such as abortion and sexual violence, that may be difficult for some audiences. Listener discretion advised. As listeners of our podcast know, the National Consumers League believes in equal health care access for all, and that includes a woman'...
15: The Drug Pricing Middlemen Driving up Drug Costs
We Can Do This! - December 01, 2021 10:00 - 46 minutesHealthcare continues to be front and center in the national discourse, particularly in the midst of the pandemic. As Congress works on policy solutions to lower healthcare costs for consumers, we face an unfair disadvantage when it comes to what we’re paying at the pharmacy counter. Man...
14: The boom in e-commerce has been a boon for fraudsters
We Can Do This! - May 28, 2021 10:00 - 57 minutesThe COVID-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated the growth of e-commerce. And counterfeiters are raking in the cash. Dr. Jay Kennedy, Assistant Professor at Michigan State University and Assistant Director of Research at the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection, joins NC...
13: Does recycling even work?
We Can Do This! - February 26, 2021 20:18 - 47 minutesBeth Porter, Climate Campaigns Director at Green America, join NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg to talk about the American arm of the global recycling movement and the confusing myriad of systems consumers must navigate to lead sustainable, eco-conscious lives. *Due to COVID-19...
12: Women's sexual health shouldn't be taboo
We Can Do This! - February 10, 2021 21:01 - 50 minutesIt's 2021, can we speak frankly about women's sexual health yet? Dr. Crista Johnson-Agbakwu (MD) of Arizona University’s Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center and Dr. Sheryl Kingsberg (Ph.D.) of UH MacDonald Women's Hospital & Case Western Reserve University join NCL’s Executive ...
11: Advice to get rid of that debt monkey on your back
We Can Do This! - September 22, 2020 15:19 - 46 minutesMichelle Singletary award-winning Washington Post columnist joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg and Lisa Hertzberg, director of the LifeSmarts program, to discuss how consumers can manage debt and finances even amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic and the predatory business pr...
10: Price gouging and usury and fraud, oh my!
We Can Do This! - July 12, 2020 21:19 - 37 minutesBen Wiseman, director of the Office of Consumer Protection at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, joins NCL’s VP of Public Policy, Telecommunications and Fraud John Breyault to talk about the surge of consumer protection issues that have emerged as a result ...
9: Child and forced marriage puts the "lock" in wedlock.
We Can Do This! - May 08, 2020 21:17 - 47 minutesFraidy Reiss, activist and founder/director of Unchained At Last, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the silent scourge of child marriage in America and the continued effort to support women who wish to...
S E9: Child and forced marriage puts the "lock" in wedlock.
We Can Do This! - May 08, 2020 21:17 - 47 minutesFraidy Reiss, activist and founder/director of Unchained At Last, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the silent scourge of child marriage in America and the continued effort to support women who wish to...
9: Child and forced marriage puts the "lock" in wedlock
We Can Do This! - May 08, 2020 21:17 - 47 minutesFraidy Reiss, activist and founder/director of Unchained At Last, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the silent scourge of child marriage in America and the continued effort to support women who wish to...
S E8: Born too soon; the difference a day makes
We Can Do This! - April 21, 2020 16:59 - 52 minutesDr. Joia Adele Crear-Perry of the National Birth Equity Collaborative and Dr. Kelle H. Moley of March of Dimes joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about premature births, maternal outcomes, and the societal stressors that disproportionately affect some pregnant...
8: Born too soon; the difference a day makes
We Can Do This! - April 21, 2020 16:59 - 52 minutesDr. Joia Adele Crear-Perry of the National Birth Equity Collaborative and Dr. Kelle H. Moley of March of Dimes joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about premature births, maternal outcomes, and the societal stressors that disproportionately affect some pregnant...
S E7: The invisible child laborers in our fields
We Can Do This! - February 24, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutesNorma Flores López, Governance and Development/Collaboration Manager at East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the plight of workers on America’s farms. Joining them a...
7: The invisible child laborers in our fields
We Can Do This! - February 24, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutesNorma Flores López, Governance and Development/Collaboration Manager at East Coast Migrant Head Start Project, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the plight of workers on America’s farms. Joining them a...
S E7: Plucked from the classroom; the invisible in our fields
We Can Do This! - February 24, 2020 07:00 - 52 minutesNorma Flores Lopez, Governance Manager and President of the National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association, joins Reid Maki, NCL’s director of child labor issues and coordinator of the Child Labor Coalition for a dialogue about the plight of workers on America’s farms. Joining the...
6: What’s for dinner? Whatever’s in the waste bin
We Can Do This! - January 17, 2020 21:02 - 47 minutesScott Nash, CEO of MOM’s Organic, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about America’s shocking food waste epidemic, our food system, and the impact that our dinner plates have on the environment.
6: What’s for dinner? Whatever’s in the waste bin.
We Can Do This! - January 17, 2020 21:02 - 47 minutesScott Nash, CEO of MOM’s Organic, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about America’s shocking food waste epidemic, our food system, and the impact that our dinner plates have on the environment.
S E6: What’s for dinner? Whatever’s in the waste bin.
We Can Do This! - January 17, 2020 21:02 - 47 minutesScott Nash, CEO of MOM’s Organic, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about America’s shocking food waste epidemic, our food system, and the impact that our dinner plates have on the environment.
5: Sorry, fair pay and a safe workplace aren’t on the menu.
We Can Do This! - January 03, 2020 18:15 - 43 minutesDiana Ramirez, Federal Senior Policy Advocate at Restaurant Opportunities Center, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about one of America’s most pervasive sources of inequality: the death of livable wages in the food industry and others.
5: Sorry, fair pay and a safe workplace aren’t on the menu
We Can Do This! - January 03, 2020 18:15 - 43 minutesDiana Ramirez, Federal Senior Policy Advocate at Restaurant Opportunities Center, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about one of America’s most pervasive sources of inequality: the death of livable wages in the food industry and others.
S E5: Sorry, fair pay and a safe workplace aren’t on the menu.
We Can Do This! - January 03, 2020 18:15 - 43 minutesDiana Ramirez, Federal Senior Policy Advocate at Restaurant Opportunities Center, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg for a dialogue about one of America’s most pervasive sources of inequality: the death of livable wages in the food industry and others.
4: Measles; it ain’t over until it’s over
We Can Do This! - December 12, 2019 17:30 - 53 minutesDr. Linda Fu, general pediatrician at Children’s National Health System and an associate professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg and Patricia Kelmar, previously NCL’s director of health policy, for a ...
4: Measles, it ain’t over until it’s over.
We Can Do This! - December 12, 2019 17:30 - 53 minutesDr. Linda Fu, general pediatrician at Children’s National Health System and an associate professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine, joins NCL’s Executive Director Sally Greenberg and Patricia Kelmar, NCL’s director of health policy, for a dialogue ab...
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